Who believes in the 5 second rule?

[yvr girl]

Does the surface involved make a difference?

[ewagner]

1. Depends

on whether my wife catches me or not............

[4_Legs_Good]

2. Hee hee

:)

[BOSSHOG]

7. Ya gotta be fast

to get it past the wife. Mine is a pain in the butt about such things.

[4_Legs_Good]

3. In a cat infested house, 5 seconds is usually too long

if the object in question is in anyway able to pick up cat fur, you can forget about it.

Cookies, however... usually okay.

david

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. You mean in driving? The 2 second rule? Yes, the surface can

make a difference, and so can the advent of anti-lock brakes which stop a hell of a lot faster than conventional ones.
5 seconds is a lot of space.

I try to keep 2-3 and it seems to work

[yvr girl]

8. different rule

the 5 second rule is deals with food, specifically, food that has been dropped on the ground.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. oh, that.... hell, you eat a pound of dirt a year, whether you like it or

not, so just dig in and enjoy!

[tridim]

5. As a former line cook at Applebees

I believe.

For the record, it was NOT an official policy of Applebees Inc, just an unspoken rule. It's a no-brainer at home.. My floor isn't that dirty.

[brainshrub]

6. I believe in it. But the surface does count.

Clean kitchen floor: Yes.
Sidewalk: Ewwwww!

You must also say: "Five second rule" out loud while picking it up.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. Although, hospital floor.... fuggedabodit!

No such thing in hospitals. Hits the ground, gone, gone, gone. I don't even re-use pens I drop at work.

[Wapsie B]

10. Surface makes all the diff.

Dirt floor? No. Dirty floor? No. Most anything else is fair game.

[achtung_circus]

12. It's not necessarily 5 seconds.

On a clean kitchen floor, ok.

I saw a kid at a livestock sale drop a banana on the ground, pick it up, brush it off and proceed to eat it. For that and a lot of other stuff I reported the family to Children's Aid.

It depends on the material dropped, too. Bread dropped butter-side down tends to pick up cat hair. I determined this through extensive personal research.

Cheezies, 10 seconds m,ay be appropriate on most interior, fairly clean surfaces.

It's an iteresting topic, worthy of a Doctoral dissertation by someone, although not me.

I hope my random thoughts are semi-coherent.



:crazy:

[DS1]

13. Depends on the dryness of the food

With doritos, you have up to about 10 minutes :D

Sometimes you need 10 minutes ( to finish the rest of the bag and still have the munchies ) :smoke:

[kick-ass-bob]

14. Yes. Your hands are probably just as dirty as the floor...

but if its got hair on it - I just dump it. Not for cleanliness so much, as palatability.

A friend who was in the Army, said his sniper friends would hang out in trees for days, eat anything they could - as dirty as it was. When they came back and ate in the mess tent, he said if something so much as get near the floor - they would refuse to eat it!
His quote: "you won't eat that for being on the floor for 1/2 a second, but you ate a pound of dirt in the trees?"

[cabbage08]

15. surface does make a difference

[TlalocW]

16. There was actually a scientific study

That for the most part validated the 5 second rule. It was rewarded one of the "Ignobel Prizes" last year.

TlalocW

[madinmaryland]

17. depends on the food.

If its something i really like and its the last one, then its going to be eaten.

[txaslftist]

18. Isn't it the five minute rule?

And what matters the surface?

You can always wipe it off on your jeans...